{"id":222,"date":"2009-07-16T22:59:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T13:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2018-05-30T16:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T07:12:46","slug":"ie6-and-ie7-support-fading-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/ie6-and-ie7-support-fading-out\/","title":{"rendered":"IE6 and IE7 support fading out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you can read in the following message,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We will be phasing out our support for your browser soon<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>it seems that Google will be phasing out support for what was six years  ago the most widely used browser, Internet Explorer.\u00a0 While the use of  IE6 seems to decrease steadily in Western countries, it is still widely  used in Asia (particularly in China and Korea, where browser share reach  about 60% of the market for IE6).\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two consequences can be imagined in  Korea. First of all, this would  involve updating computer software  (browsers, but also operating  systems) for a tremendous number of  machines.\u00a0 Furthermore, it would  require a great deal of effort from  developers to update existing web  applications and make them work with  recent browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, if this tendency is confirmed, it may  lead to great advancements in terms of usability, cross-browser  compatibility, and democratization of cutting-edge technologies (HTML5,  ECMAScript4).\u00a0 It should also considerably alleviate website design  challenges, focusing more on accessibility and graphics rather than  Javascript and CSS hacks.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, unless governments and  organizations awake and start to promote the use of newer,  standard-compliant browsers, repercussons could be dramatic.\u00a0 It could  lead to the ostracization of the Asian internet, since not only would  newer websites become incompatible with IE6, but the lack of consistent  updating would allow computer systems to become particularly vulnerable  to hacking or virus attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can read in the following message, We will be phasing out our support for your browser soon it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,247],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-trend-watch","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}